Mobile Phones That Go Beep In The Night
from the ouch dept
A very amusing (though, not if you lived it) recap of someone who now hates his Motorola phone after having it wake him up in the middle of the night with a warning beep that the battery was dying. Apparently, the phone is set to make that warning beep every 4 minutes. The owner of the phone has no clue where the phone is, and has to gradually triangulate the phone's location in four minute intervals when all he wants to do is go back to sleep. It's these sorts of features that sound good on paper, but aren't always that carefully thought through.
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hate that too
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second most stupid cell phone design feature
If I turn the phone off, I shouldn't have to pull the batter to mean it.
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How to find a phone ...
And what an idiot ... he didn't have to " triangulate " every 4 minutes.
If the doofus would have just dialed his cell phone he would have found it faster ...
I know every time I lose my phone ( @ least once a week ) ... this is how I locate it.
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Haven't we all had this happen to us before with various devices? And there are so many gadgets that beep when running low, sometimes I don't know WHICH device is doing the beeping. On time there was this annoying beeping coming from SOMETHING and I had to triangulate it down to my wife's Blackberry - annoying as hell.
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if someone does not answer the phone
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if i get the answering machine
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www.phoneRadar.com/
chao Dave Doyle Torquay
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